Exploring new ways of turning evidence into ideas
By 2040, 30% of the population are going to be over 60. Policy Lab and go-science explored new ways of quickly generating ideas to answer these demographic changes.
Policy Lab
Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
From deductive to abductive, Policy Lab investigates new ways of thinking about policy
Do you have an ‘I really don’t know’ policy challenge? Policy Lab can help.
Cards toolkit to help generate ideas and develop your policy project in an agile way
Since its birth in the mid-90s, agile methodology has become the star of the software development and project management world. Findcourses.co.uk lists 43 different agile courses available, 3M post-it notes sales are around £1 billion per year and ‘scrums’, ‘burn-downs’ …
What do civil servants need to learn about user-centred design?
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Ulele Andrews, Posted on:
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Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques, Thought Pieces
User-centred design is increasingly on the agenda of government and Civil Service Learning is gearing up to deliver learning on user-centred design next year. Read about how they're using the Policy Lab to help design the course.
Ethnography in policymaking: Barriers and opportunities
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
Increasingly on the agenda of policymakers is a need to understand the needs, capacities and perspectives of citizens, service users, beneficiaries and front line staff so that policies are fit for purpose and deliverable and public services are better designed.
Design in policy making
Can we create public services that are valuable to the public, so that they are delighted, even proud of their existence - whilst simultaneously saving money?
Open Policy 2015: Prototyping in government workshop
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
A room full of people making Play-Doh shapes of ducks and monkeys might not seem an obvious way to start a conversation about prototyping in government. But opening the Open Policy 2015 prototyping workshop this way allowed the speaker, Andrea …
Policy making through possible futures
I was really excited that Policy Lab was able to introduce another new technique into how Government engages the people in a debate about public policy. The subject was work in an ageing population (i.e. the number of older people …
Prototyping an online crime reporting service: a Policy Lab success story
Last week the Home Secretary announced that Surrey and Sussex would trial a prototype online crime reporting service which could save around £3.7 million if it is offered nationally on police.uk. This was one of the ideas developed as part …
Testing policy sprints
Yesterday we asked about how to use agile for policy making. Last week, Policy Lab experimented with doing it. It kind of makes sense that we should kick-start a piece of work about healthy outcomes with a sprint. But …